Also they would both deny it, and I had no witness.

Tell him that Saduko's reconciliation with him was not sincere, and that he had better look to himself?
How did I know it was not sincere?
It might suit Saduko's book to make friends with Masapo, and if I interfered I should only make enemies and be called a liar who was working for some secret end.
Go to Panda and confide my suspicions to him?
He was far too anxious and busy about great matters to listen to me, and if he did, would only laugh at this tale of a petty flirtation.

No, there was nothing to be done except sit still and wait.

Very possibly I was mistaken, after all, and things would smooth themselves out, as they generally do.
Meanwhile the "reviewing," or whatever it may have been, was in progress, and I was busy with my own affairs, making hay while the sun shone.

So great were the crowds of people who came up to Nodwengu that in a week I had sold everything I had to sell in the two wagons, that were mostly laden with cloth, beads, knives and so forth.